Improvement in washing-machines



G. SEYMOUR.

Washing-Machines. r

` vPatented March 25, 1873.

Wfj' !i Y I .2 f E Rv will |A 1I yllllmimll Lim ATENT GEORGE SEYMOUR, OE BOONE, Iowa'.

IMPROVEMENT lN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Fatent No. 137,151, dated March 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE SEYMOUR, of Boone, in the county of Boone and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in VVashing-Machine, ot' which the following is a specification:

Figure l is a top view of my improved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical crosssection of the same taken through the line c' a', Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail side view of one of the bearings for the rollers, showing the pair in position. Fig. 4 is an end view of one ot'V the stationary rubbers.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish au improved washing-machine, simple in construction, convenient in use, and eifective iu operation, washing the clothes quickly and thoroughly, and without injuring them; and

it consists inA the combination of the pairs of'- grooved rollers and their metallic bearings, and the stationaryr grooved bars with the grooved ends of the tub, and in the combination of the ring rods or wires with the crossbar, coiled springs, and oscillating rubber, as hereinafter more fully described.

The sides and bottom of the tub are made of a sheet, A, ot' zinc or other suitable sheet metal, the end edges of which are bent over the curved edges ofthe lower parts of the vertical ends B. The upper or side edges of the sheet metal A are secured to bars C attached to the lower edges of the upper side parts ofthe ends B, which project beyond the curved sides to enlarge the upper part of the tub. Dare side boards, which are attached to the edges of the bars G and ends B, as shown in Figs. l and 2. To the bar G, at one side of the tub, is attached a board, E, to

A serve as a shelf, 'and also to prevent the Water from spattering out. To the other bar C is attached au ordinary rubbing-board, F, to enable such parts of the clothes as ma-y be very much soiled to be rubbed by hand. In the inner surface of the ends B, parallel with and at a little distance from the sheet-metal plate A, is formed a groove, which, at the side of the tub next the rubber-board F, extends up to the upper edge of the said ends B, as shown in Figs. l and 2. Gr are rollers,

' .which are made in the form of cylinders, with four longitudinal grooves formed in them, as shown in Figs. 2 and The rollers Gr are pivoted, in pairs, to metallic blocks or bearings H so formed that they may loe slid into the grooves of the ends B. I are bars, the faces of which have two longitudinal grooves formed in them, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. The ends of the bars I or tenons formed upon said ends are so formed as to be slid into the grooves of the ends B. The stationary rubhing-bars I are alternated with the pairs of rollers G, as shown in Fig. 2. J are the end plates or boards oi' the oscillating rubber, which are made in about the form shown in Fig..2, and are connected and held in their proper relative positions by two cross-bars, K. L are cross-bars, the faces oi' which are grooved or concaved longitudinally, as shown in Fig. 2, and their ends are secured in notches in the curved edges of the plates J. To the outer sides of the plates J below the centers of the circles of their curved edges, are attached pivots M, which enter vertical grooves in the inner surfaces of the ends B so that the rubber may move up and down to adjust `itself to the thickness of clothes being operatthe end parts of the cross-bar 0 are attached i the upper ends ot' the coiled-wire springs P, the lower ends of which are attached to the end parts of the upper bar K. To the ends of the cross-bar O are attached pins or other catches to receive the ring rod or wire Q, or an eye formed upon or attached to said ring Q. The rings Q are pivoted to the ends Bibelow the lower ends of the vertical grooves in which the pivots M work. The rings Q thus hold the bar O against the pressure of the springsP as they are compressed by the clothes being operated upon. r

Having thus described my inven tion,I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Pat entmi. The combination of the pairs of grooved leting rubber J K L, substantially as herein rollers Gr and their metallic bearings H and shown and described, and for the purpose set the stationary grooved bars I with the grooved forth.

ends B of the tub, substantially as herein GEO. SEYMOUR. shown and described, and for the purpose set forth. Witnesses:

2. The combination of the ring rods or Wires H. L. BARR,

Q with the cross-bar 0, springs P, and oscil- W. T. EVANS. 

